The University-operated radio station, KUT, could lose a half a million dollars in federal funding if a proposed spending cuts bill passes the Senate.

The U.S. House of Representa-tives approved a bill Saturday that would cut $60 billion from the federal budget. If the Senate pass-es the bill, the government would eliminate federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcast-

ing, which would result in an esti-mated $531 million in savings.

The corporation funds public television and radio stations, in-cluding National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service.

Funding from the corpora-tion makes up about 7 percent of KUT’s operating budget, or roughly $500,000 a year, said KUT director Stewart Vanderwilt.

“It would have a profound im-pact on the station if federal fund-ing to KUT was cut,” he said. “It would be very difficult for the sta-

tion [to] continue to run the way it currently does.”

KUT uses federal funds to pur-chase programs from NPR such as “Morning Edition” and “Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me!”’ and to hire and pay local reporters and pro-ducers who contribute to the sta-tion, Vanderwilt said.

“Without those funds we would either have to find ways to replace the money or reduce those costs in a substantial way,” he said.

Although Tommy Joe Kelley, who police think could be involved in hundreds of tire slashings around Hyde Park, has been arrested, many North Campus residents are still con-cerned about safety.

History senior Katie Carson said she is frustrat-ed it took so long for po-lice to catch Kelley. While visiting her boyfriend on 41st Street last May, some-one slashed her tires.

“I thought that I had just run over something,” Carson said. “I went to a tire place and they said, ‘This was done by an ice pick.’”

According to Austin Police De-partment, Kelley used a long, thin piece of metal sharpened to a point to puncture tires.

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‘Change your mind’Boyce Avenue performs with special guests Megan & Liz and Tiffany Alvord at 7:30 p.m. at Emo’s. Doors open at 7 p.m., and tickets are $15 at the door.

Wrongful convictionsCo-author Dorothy Budd discusses her book, “Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope,” about wrongfully convicted men in North Texas. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. in the UT Law School Eidman Courtroom, and admission is free.

In 1989DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince win the first rap Grammy for their hit single, “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”

Longhorns basketballTexas men’s basketball is playing against the Iowa State University Cyclones at the Frank Erwin Center. The game begins at 7 p.m., and tickets range from $2-$191.

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Census data released last week shows dramatic growth in Hispanic and Asian populations in Texas, but state trends do not necessarily reflect the demographics of UT students.

According to the 2010 Census, 37.6 percent — about 9.5 million — of Texans have Hispanic or Lati-no origin, while only 19.4 percent — nearly 7,500 — of UT undergraduate students are Hispanic.

“When the data came out for racial

and ethnic change last week, it showed dramatic diversification of the Texas population,” said Steve Murdock, for-mer census director and Rice Univer-sity sociology professor. “Enrollment levels [for minorities] are not where they should be. Non-Anglo popula-tions have fewer resources and as a result they are less likely to go to col-lege. It’s one of the major challenges for Texas and one of the most impor-tant things for us to do.”

New initiatives for the Univer-sity’s scientific research and music programs could help students gain career-oriented skills and new op-portunities to earn money.

On Friday, the UT System Board of Regents approved two separate renovation plans totaling more than $70 million for the Texas Ad-vanced Computing Center and the Butler School of Music. The music school has to raise at least $20 mil-lion to start its new project. The center will attempt to win a $56 million grant under the unexpend-

ed plant fund — money that the University has accumulated over time to fund different programs, said Kevin Hegarty, vice president and chief financial officer of Fi-nancial Affairs.

“[The Center] wants to apply to attempt to win a grant that would pay for the development and oper-ation of the next generation of su-percomputers,” Hegarty said.

Center director Jay Boisseau said they will submit a proposal on March 7 to win the grant. The grant will benefit the School of Natural Sciences because every scientific

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Adult beverages1800 block of Guadalupe StreetA UT Police Officer observed a vehicle travelling the wrong way on a posted one-way street. During the traffic investigation, the officer detected a moderate odor of alcohol on the non-UT driver’s breath. The officer soon learned the driver was under the legal age of 21 and had been consuming adult beverages at an unknown location. Both non-UT passengers were issued court appearance citations and were released at the scene.

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Jacqueline Angel, a public af-fairs and sociology professor, said the UT Hispanic popula-tion has not grown as fast as the state because of high high-school dropout rates, the cost of high-er education and socioeconom-ic status.

“Hispanic enrollments in higher education may not be projected to increase proportion-ally to growth [in Texas],” An-gel said. “It’s going to be impor-tant to address the problem of the lack of Hispanic individuals get-ting baccalaureate and post-grad-uate degrees. We need to make sure we are mirroring the rest of the state.”

Brandon Hunter, co-director of UT’s Latino Leadership Council, said the University could help in-crease the Hispanic student pop-ulation by recruiting more ag-gressively, providing bilingual

programs for parents and making tuition more affordable.

“I think they’re pretty evident of the University’s not-so-great job of increasing diversity,” Hunt-er said. “You see this with the roll-ing back of the top-10 percent rule and the little attempt the Univer-sity has done to keep retention up among Latinos. I think it’s been a general failure but also a lack of prioritization of diversity.”

Angel said there are ways to increase the number of minori-ty students such as adding addi-tional minority faculty.

“When you have faculty mem-bers who understand your back-ground, it really shows students how education pays off,” she said. “We need to work very hard at this in light of the staggering trends that we’re seeing.”

Murdock said legislators could also help diversification by main-taining TEXAS Grants and need-based financial aid in the 2012-13 biennium budget.

“The thing we can do right

now in light of all these bud-get cuts is not to cut the TEX-AS Grants program but in fact to look at it and put it at the level it was proposed to be in the early 2000s,” he said.

Unlike the Hispanic student population, the Asian under-graduate student population of UT — 17.9 percent including in-ternational students — surpass-es the census estimates of Asian-Americans making up 3.8 per-cent of the Texas population, or approximately 965,000 people. Madeline Hsu, director of the Center for Asian American Stud-ies said Asian immigration into the U.S. since 1865 has included many middle class families with parents who already have college degrees.

“There is a tendency for fam-ilies who have college degrees to continue getting an education,” Hsu said.

She said by 2014, Asian-Amer-icans are projected to be the sec-ond-largest minority population

in Texas, with a larger popula-tion than African-Americans.

Deputy Director of Admis-sions Augustine Garza said the disparity exists and partially re-sults from the top-8 percent rule — legislation passed last session allowing UT to limit the number of automatically admitted high school graduates from the previ-ous top-10 percent.

“We’re going to continue to talk to students who are the top of their class,” Garza said. “The population we target in our re-cruiting does not necessari-ly mirror the population of the state of Texas.”

Hsu said if the top-8 percent rule were eliminated, UT could have more minority groups on campus.

“Focusing on class rank is a vary narrow kind of system,” she said. “In general, the University would benefit by having a broad-er array [of enrollment]. It is an imperfect mechanism to accom-plish diversity.”

field involves extensive compu-tational research, such as weath-er tracking and seismic activity systems, he said.

“We want UT researchers to have [the] best instruments,” he said.

The computational research resources will help graduate and undergraduate students who are involved in compu-tation-heavy research obtain their master’s or doctoral de-grees by learning to use the emerging technology for dis-coveries, Boisseau said.

“They [will be] better pre-pared for research careers and for careers in industries that use advanced computing technol-ogies [such as] aerospace engi-neering, petroleum engineering, etc.,” he said.

The center hires 10 students

every semester to help develop and support systems and assist researchers in using advanced computing programs.

The board also granted per-mission to raise a $20 million fund for the School of Music. Hegarty said the responsibility to identify and secure donors for the project lies with the school itself.

If the school succeeds in rais-ing the money, Hegarty said a new building will be built in East Campus and will serve as a mu-sic academy for Texas youth.

“A lot of money generated from these lessons will go back directly to students,” Hegarty said.

According to the board’s dock-et, music graduate students earn $120,000 per year in financial aid by teaching 330 K-12 stu-

dents how to play instruments. The UT Academy of Music is ex-pected to enroll 2,000 students, which will in turn increase fi-nancial aid by almost $900,000.

School of Music Chair B. Glenn Chandler said they will solicit private donors who are interested in funding these kinds of projects. The state is not pro-viding any funding for this ini-tiative, he said.

He also said now that the school has the board’s approv-al to raise money, they will start making the efforts to reach do-nors and start designing the building. The project does not yet have a scheduled timetable for completion, he said.

“We would love to see con-struction starting within the next couple of years,” Chandler said.

Vanderwilt said since the sta-tion is just learning about the poten-tial cuts, they are still in discussion about what action to take, but hop-ing for strong community support.

“We are going to inform the com-munity about this potential threat and we hope people will make their interests known,” he said. “If they feel that continued funding is im-portant, we hope they will let their representatives know.”

KUT intern Mario Carrillo said public broadcasting shouldn’t be on the chopping block for fund-ing because it is a unique facet of news reporting.

“I think cuts are a horrible idea because public broadcasting is a great medium,” he said. “I think it’s one of the best mediums we have for storytelling and it’s very different and unique from print or broadcast.”

Carrillo said cutting funds would limit the station’s ability to cover the city as best they can.

Jessica Hamilton, a journalism senior and KUT news copy editor, said any cuts would be disheart-ening, but those affecting student workers take away from the learn-ing experience.

“The purpose of student work-ers here is to get hands-on experi-ence and to get your feet wet,” she

said. “So if it comes down to it and budget cuts affect student hiring, it would limit and hurt the experience that we have.”

Hamilton said although public broadcasting is in line for budget cuts, she doesn’t feel targeted.

“I don’t think they are attack-ing us, because it’s all across the board,” she said. “It’s hard times for everyone, and I’m not surprised.”

For a long time, Carson did not park her car by her boyfriend’s apart-ment.

“I still have a feeling someone is going to come and slash my tires,” Carson said.

Nursing senior Justin Savino said the tire slashings are one of the rea-sons he is moving out of his North Campus apartment.

“I park in an apartment parking lot on Helms [Street] and Speedway,” Savino said. “The person who we park next to [had] all four of her tires [slashed]. She went out and bought new ones and the tire slasher came back and reslashed them.”

He said seeing his neighbor’s trou-bles really made him concerned about his car, so he asked his land-lords to install cameras so the offend-er could be caught. They never did.

Savino said he is not concerned about copycats.

“My personal opinion is that tire slashing is a pastime and is proba-bly caused by one mentally deranged individual doing something stupid,” Savino said. “Once you get him and put him away and [help his] mental health, you probably eliminate the problem.”

Lindsay Taylor, a public relations and government senior, said the Aus-tin Police Department should keep North Campus residents more in-formed about potential safety issues.

“North Campus is a pretty neglect-ed part of University life in general,” Taylor said. “Even though it is so far away from campus, a ton of students live there and keeping us more aware of situations like this is a really good idea.”

Communication studies junior Thomas Nguyen, who lives in North Campus, is mostly concerned about the safety of his car rather than his own personal safety.

“In general, it is pretty quiet in North Campus,” Nguyen said. “It’s a little shady sometimes. The build-ings are older than West Campus and sometimes the conditions of the street and the alleys between the buildings seem a little sketchy, but overall I feel like it’s a decently safe place.”

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Monday’s Page 1 news story about mental health care funding should have said Texas is $27 billion short of keeping the current mental health services going for about 7,850 adults enrolled in disease management or ongoing community support.

UNITED NATIONS — Key Lib-yan diplomats disowned Moam-mar Gadhafi’s regime on Monday and the country’s deputy U.N. am-bassador called on the longtime rul-er to step down because of its bloody crackdown on protesters.

The Libyan ambassador to the United States also said he could no longer support Gadhafi, and the am-bassador to India resigned. Almost all Libyan diplomats at the United Nations backed deputy ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi’s pleas to Gadhafi to end his 40-year rule and to the in-ternational community to intervene.

The U.N. spokesperson’s office said late Monday that the Securi-ty Council had scheduled consul-tations on the situation in Libya for Tuesday morning.

Earlier, Dabbashi had said he was writing to the Security Council call-ing for action to stop the bloodshed.

As diplomatic support for Gadhafi began to crumble, Dabbashi warned that if he doesn’t leave, “the Libyan people will get rid of him.”

Gadhafi’s security forces un-leashed the most deadly crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, with reports Monday that demonstrators were being fired at from helicopters and warplanes. After seven days of protests and deadly clashes in Libya’s eastern cities, the eruption of tur-moil in the capital, Tripoli, sharply escalated the challenge to Gadhafi.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon late Monday expressed out-rage at the reported aerial attacks, saying they would be “a serious vi-olation of international humanitari-an law,” and again called for an im-mediate end to the violence, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said. Earlier Monday, Ban spoke to Gad-hafi for 40 minutes urging a halt to the bloodshed, respect for human rights and protection of the civilian population.

Libya’s ambassador in Washing-ton, Ali Adjali, told BBC World that the reports of firing from warplanes spurred his decision not to support the government any more.

“To me it is a very sad moment seeing Libyans killing other Liby-ans,” he said. “I’m not supporting the government killing its people ...

I’m [not] resigning Moammar Gad-hafi’s government, but I am with the people. I am representing the people in the street, the people who’ve been killed, the people who’ve been de-stroyed. Their life is in danger.”

Dabbashi, the deputy U.N. am-bassador, also said he and the U.N. diplomats were not resigning be-cause they served the people of Lib-ya and not the regime.

“This is in fact a declaration of war against the Libyan people,” he told reporters, surrounded by a dozen Libyan diplomats. “The re-gime of Gadhafi has already start-ed the genocide against the Libyan people.”

Libya’s U.N. Ambassador Mo-hamed Shalgham was not pres-ent at Dabbashi’s press conference. He told the U.N. correspondent for the pan-Arab newspaper, Al-Hayat, that all diplomats at Libya’s mission supported Dabbashi “excluding me.”

Shalgham said he was in touch with the Gadhafi government and was trying “to persuade them to stop these acts.”

In New Delhi, an Indian diplo-matic official told the AP that the Libyan ambassador to India intends to resign. However, as of Tuesday morning the ambassador, Ali al-Es-sawi, had not officially met with the foreign ministry to turn in his cre-dentials.

Earlier, al-Essawi told the BBC he had resigned because of “mas-sive violence against Libyan civil-ians.” Abdel-Moneim al-Houni, who resigned Sunday as Libya’s ambassa-dor to the Arab League in Cairo, de-manded that Gadhafi and his com-manders and aides be put on trial for “the mass killings in Libya.”

“Gadhafi’s regime is now in the trash of history because he betrayed his nation and his people,” al-Houni said in a statement.

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WORLD&NATION 3Tuesday, February 22, 2011 | THE DAILY TEXAN | Sydney Fitzgerald, Wire Editor | dailytexanonline.com

MADISON, Wis. — To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the nation’s attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new governor.

Gov. Scott Walker made clear Monday he won’t back off his pro-posal to effectively eliminate collec-tive bargaining rights for most pub-lic employees. Senate Democrats who fled the state last week to delay the plan vowed not to come back to

allow it to pass — even if they have to miss votes on other bills Tuesday. And union leaders said they would not let up on protests that have con-sumed Wisconsin’s capital city for a week and made the state the center of a national debate over the role of public employees’ unions.

That dynamic means it might take Republicans in the Legislature who believe Walker is going too far to try to break the impasse. One idea that has been floated by GOP Sen. Dale Schultz would temporarily take away bargaining rights to get through the

state’s next two-year budget, then immediately restore them.

While it’s unclear whether that would be acceptable to his colleagues, Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said in a phone interview from the hotel room in Chicago where he’s hiding out that Schultz was brave for mak-ing the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Center, and five or six oth-er Republican senators who have ties to organized labor are in the best po-sition to get both sides to negotiate a deal.

Protesters who crowded inside

the Capitol for a sixth day Sunday had a similar message. They hung a banner in the Capitol reading “Wis-consin needs 3 cou(R)ageous Sena-tors,” referring to the number of Re-publicans needed to join with Dem-ocrats to block the bill.

The protesters have included teachers, who have sometimes ar-rived in such high numbers that their districts were forced to close due to understaffing. The Madison School District was closed Wednes-day through Monday but was ex-pected to reopen Tuesday.

Alaguri | Associated Press

Residents stand on a tank holding a pre-Gadhafi era national flag inside a security forces compound in Benghazi, Libya, on Monday.

Jeffrey Phelps | Associated Press

Kathryn Schulze wears a message written on tape over her mouth inside the state Capitol on Monday in Madison, Wis. Opponents to Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers are taking part in their seventh day of protesting.

Attacks on protesters provoke UN action

City in New Zealand thrown into disarray after 6.3 earthquake

GOP may sway Wisconsin budget vote

By Edith M. LedererThe Associated Press

By Ryan J. FoleyThe Associated Press

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A strong, 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch on Tuesday, seri-ously injuring people and damaging buildings throughout the city.

Police said there were reports of multiple fatalities, but Prime Minister John Key told Parliament details were still too shaky for those reports to be confirmed.

Live video footage showed parts of buildings collapsed into the streets, which were strewn with bricks and shattered concrete. Sidewalks and roads were split, and hundreds of dazed, screaming and crying resi-dents wandered through the streets as sirens blared throughout the city.

Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said he was on the top floor of the city

council building when the quake hit just before 1 p.m. local time, throw-ing him across the room.

“I got down onto the street and there were scenes of great confusion, a lot of very upset people,” he said. “I’ve had some reports of serious in-juries throughout the city.”

Radio New Zealand reported that a church near the city center col-lapsed. The station said staffers in its Christchurch newsroom had to cling to their desks during the shaking, with large filing cabinets toppling over.

“The details we have are extreme-ly sketchy,” the prime minister told Parliament. “The worrying fear, of course, is that this earthquake has taken place at a time when people were going about their business — it is a very populated time, with peo-ple at work, children at school. Sadly, I cannot rule out that there have been fatalities.”

By Steve McMorranThe Associated Press

Layton Duncan | Associated Press

People look at a damaged church after a powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand, on Tuesday. The 6.3-magnitude quake col-lapsed buildings and is sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths.

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By Matt DaleyDaily Texan Guest Columnist

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Preserve mental health funding

Simply untrue. Dangerously untrue.The Daily Texan has reprinted an article by Jim

Vertuno of the Associated Press claiming that a bill in the Texas Legislature would allow “students and pro-fessors” to carry guns on campus. This is simply untrue and poor reporting.

I encourage everyone to look the bill up online and read the actual document. It’s clear Mr. Vertuno did not. The words “student” and “professor” do not appear in the bill. Instead, it allows those who have a concealed carry license to bring a gun onto campus, concealed. This might as well have been reported that plumbers and carpenters and delivery people will be allowed to carry guns on campus — if they have that license. The bill does not empower “students and professors” to do so by virtue of being students and professors.

This is irresponsible journalism on the part of Mr. Vertuno because it misrepresents a law under con-sideration. Reasonable people will disagree as to the merits of the bill, but public debate cannot go forward constructively if reporters won’t do basic research on what they report to the public. It is criminally irre-sponsible because if the bill becomes law, this kind of reporting might give people the idea that they can bring guns to campus just because they are students or professors. Dangerously untrue. To get a concealed carry license one must be 21, in addition to passing rigorous background checks and proficiency tests. This rules out most undergraduates from the start, and again, certainly does not allow them to carry because they are students.

Mr. Vertuno should take some reporting courses from our own excellent School of Journalism, where higher standards of reporting are taught.

— Barry BrummettCharles Sapp Centennial Professor in

CommunicationDepartment of Communication Studies Chair

In the last few years, Gov. Rick Perry has repeatedly rejected federal dollars, reminding Texans that he is oblivious to the severe economic recession to which even Texas is not immune.

In 2009, Perry rejected $555 million in federal stim-ulus money to aid the unemployed, and last year, he rejected up to $750 million in stimulus money for Tex-as schools. Now legislators are looking to plug holes in the budget and to cut funding from various state agen-cies and areas. The result? Texans will pay the price.

After the state mandated a 10-percent budget reduc-tion for all state agencies for the 2012-13 biennium, the University has been among a number of institutions carefully examining its budget. University administra-tors cut funding from several academic programs, and cuts to the Counseling and Mental Health Center were not far behind.

Last fall, the center began charging students $5 for each individual, couples and psychiatric ap-pointment — appointments that were previously free — to continue to offer services without cutting staff, CMHC Associate Director Jane Morgan Bost told The Daily Texan.

More than 26 percent — or about one in four — of those 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Moreover, about 8 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds had a serious mental illness in 2008, according to the most recent data available from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. When ap-plied to the University, this statistic suggests that more than 4,000 students at UT have a serious mental, be-havioral or emotional disorder that interferes with at least one major life activity.

Nonetheless, because Perry refuses to accept federal dollars or to tap into the $9.4 billion Rainy Day Fund, legislators are looking to cut funding from several ar-eas, including mental health, public and higher educa-tion, nursing homes and public safety.

Academic budget reductions are certainly detrimen-tal to the quality of education institutions can offer: As class sizes increase, class availability declines and, ultimately, accessibility to higher education decreases. However, when funding is cut from mental health ser-vices, there is only one result: A vital resource is limit-ed, as the number of people who can receive necessary treatment is directly minimized.

In fact, Texas is $27 million short of providing men-tal health services for about 7,200 adults enrolled in disease management or ongoing community support, David Evans, Travis County Integral Care executive director, told the Texan. It is no surprise that Texas ranks 49th in the nation on the amount it spends per person on mental health services, according to the Texas Medical Association.

Cuts to mental health services will be counterpro-ductive for the state, as each person who is repeatedly hospitalized, admitted to a detoxification center or jailed rather than properly treated can cost the state an estimated $55,000 per year, according to the Texas Medical Association. As a result, taxpayer dollars will make up the difference.

The state’s lack of support of mental health services is disheartening, and it sends the message that mental health is not important. Mental health is as important as physical health, and mental illnesses, like physi-cal sickness, cannot go untreated. Though most state agencies will take a hit from the budget cuts, mental health services should remain a top priority for legisla-tors and funding for them should be preserved.

— Viviana Aldous for the editorial board

Over the past several years, hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation have been embracing the growing body of scientific research which continues to docu-ment the health, environmental and eco-nomic costs of tobacco use by making their respective campuses smoke-free. The benefits of a smoke-free policy present a compelling case for UT to consider adopting a similar position. As a part of its mission to promote healthy lifestyles and environmental con-sciousness, the University should seriously consider the implementation of a 100-per-cent smoke-free campus policy.

That tobacco use is harmful to one’s health now seems beyond contention. The conse-quences of tobacco use for users and those around them are well-known and well-doc-umented. Cigarette use releases dozens of toxic air pollutants, and casually discarded cigarette butts languish on the ground, defy-ing biodegradation for years and offering an unsightly diversion to passers-by.

Perhaps somewhat less obvious are the economic costs of tobacco use, notably in the context of health insurance premiums and health care costs later in life. If UT adopted a smoke-free policy, health insurance pre-mium payments in the future would be re-duced both for the University and for faculty and staff members, saving all parties involved money in an economic climate in which ev-ery bit of savings is important.

In the American College Health Associa-tion’s 2008 national college health assessment, 65.7 percent of respondents from UT report-ed never having used cigarettes, but 83-per-

cent of those same respondents reported a belief that the “typical student” at UT Austin had used cigarettes within the previous thirty days. These numbers indicate an interesting disparity. In the same survey, 66.8-percent of respondents reported never having received information about tobacco use from the University, which regularly strives to edu-cate incoming students about alcohol use. Because freshmen students are often viewed as a high-risk group for picking up the habit, the University should take steps to educate young Longhorns about the risks of tobacco use. A smoke-free campus policy would send a strong message and undoubtedly discour-age tobacco use among first-year students, especially those who live on campus.

Taken together, the above data present an opportunity for UT Austin to improve its current stance on tobacco use and educa-tion. Of course, a smoke-free campus poli-cy would affect faculty and staff to an even greater degree than it would affect students. Their different circumstances mean that any conversation about smoking on campus must involve the entire University community and take the different needs and concerns of everyone into account. A recent resolution introduced in the Student Government As-sembly would seek to address the above is-sues by calling on the administration to work with students, faculty and staff to design and implement a smoke-free policy at UT Aus-tin. In doing so, UT Austin would join other UT System schools, a number of UT’s peer schools, schools in the Big 12 Conference and hundreds of schools nationwide in making a commitment to promoting a healthy and en-vironmentally conscious lifestyle on campus.

Expanding education programs and pro-

viding support during any transition period would be critical to this process. University Health Services currently operates a smok-ing-cessation program which is free for UT students and is offered at a low cost to faculty and staff. The UHS Pharmacy also offers dis-counted tobacco-cessation products. These programs should be expanded.

Additionally, the City of Austin has re-cently received a $7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to address the issue of tobacco use in Austin in coopera-tion with the UT School of Public Health. A significant portion of that grant has been earmarked for use at UT. This money could be put toward implementing a smoke-free policy, should the University decide to adopt one, in the form of education, cessa-tion programs and support. Technical costs, including signage and publicity, could also be partially mitigated.

It goes without saying that this process would be a gradual one. In no way would it be reasonable to simply remove all ashtrays on campus one night and have the campus suddenly be smoke-free. In that sense, this is merely the beginning of a much larger dia-logue. But the time has come to begin such a conversation. Students, faculty and staff should be brought together to discuss this important issue. Compared to the nation as a whole, few schools in Texas have adopted smoke-free policies. UT has an opportunity to be a leader in a movement which seems to gain momentum every day and to emphasize in a major way its commitment to promot-ing healthy and environmentally conscious living.

Daley is a College of Natural Sciences SG representative.

Students most frequently with-draw from universities because of depression and a loss of financial aid, according to a study led by research-ers at Michigan State University.

The report was funded by the Col-lege Board, a nonprofit organization that creates standardized tests in-cluding the SAT and AP tests. Oth-er significant factors contributing to student withdrawal found in the re-port include recruitment by anoth-er job or institution, an unexpected bad grade, roommate conflicts and a raise in tuition or living expenses.

“Identifying these specific events can help universities decide what type of services to provide,” said Jes-sica Keeney, a psychology doctoral student at Michigan State University and co-author of the report.

About 20 percent of enter-ing UT freshmen in 2004 did not complete their degree within six years, compared with the nation-al average of 43 percent, according to data from the UT Office of In-formation Management and Anal-ysis and the National Center for Education Statistics, respectively.

By knowing what causes students to drop out, universities can improve their policies, said Tim Pleskac, an assistant professor of psychology at Michigan State University and lead researcher for the report. For exam-ple, to avoid a student being shocked

by a bad course grade, making grades available online can help that student track their progress, he said.

“We have a better sense of what factors get people thinking about quitting,” Pleskac said.

The study, which was released last month, surveyed 1,200 en-rolled students from 10 universi-ties and was based on previous re-search on the influence of precipi-tating events or shocks that influ-ence withdrawal, Pleskac said.

UT Student Financial Services di-rector Tom Melecki said OSFS tries to reduce unexpected financial pres-sures on students.

“We try to make a commitment to a student for the full school year,” Melecki said.

Students may lose financial aid from one year to the next as a re-sult of a poor GPA or failure to ad-here to rules of the program. These students have the option of appeal-ing if they experienced a hardship that affected their academic per-formance, Melecki said.

Jane Morgan Bost, associate di-rector of the Counseling and Men-tal Health Center, said counselors help students decide the best plan for their situation and that may include dropping out when their academ-ic work is negatively impacting their mental health.

“We [work] with the student col-laboratively to come up with a plan of action,” Bost said.

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To honor a former UT professor, congresswoman and state senator, the Texas Legislature will pass a res-olution today to commemorate the birthday of Barbara Jordan.

Monday marked the 75th birth-day of Jordan, former Texas sen-ator and professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Jordan was the first African-American woman to join the state senate and was later elected to the Unit-ed States Congress, before teach-ing in the School of Public Affairs. She died in 1996.

Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, will present a House resolution to the Senate that will be passed to-day in honor of Jordan’s birthday, while Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, will present it to the House, said Laura Langham, a staff attor-ney and researcher with the Tex-as Senate. Lawmakers have invited 100 fifth graders from Barbara Jor-dan Elementary School to watch the resolution pass in the House and the Senate, Langham said.

“Besides the fact that she was an outstanding woman, it seems

appropriate to honor her birth-day because of all that she ac-complished in the Senate,” she said. “It’s important to embody her values as a senator and to celebrate her.”

The resolution is part of a weeklong symposium co-spon-sored by the Legislature and LBJ School to celebrate the life of Barbara Jordan.

Ellis spoke to a crowd of 130 in the LBJ School about Jordan’s legacy. It’s especially important to celebrate her legacy and impact on UT and the School of Pub-lic Affairs so that future students can accomplish what she could not, Ellis said.

“Of all of the accolades on her resume to have put on her head-stone in the state cemetery, the one that stands out in the boldest print is teacher,“ he said. “May-be that’s because at the end of the day, the most significant gift that any of us can give to future gen-erations is being a teacher.”

Tiffany O’Neal, a graduate stu-dent in the LBJ School and one of the student organizers, said she wanted to get as many student groups involved as possible.

“Every student group we con-tacted jumped on board,” she said.

Student groups involved with the symposium include Public Alliance for Communities of Col-or, the Green Society, the Center for Health and Social Policy and Social, Health, and Economic Policymakers. Issues that Jordan fought on behalf of, including en-vironmental justice, juvenile jus-

tice and education, are still on the forefront of issues dealt with by students in the School of Pub-lic Affairs, O’Neal said.

“The one thing I knew about the LBJ School was that Barba-ra Jordan taught here, and that’s why I decided to come,” she said. “We all need to keep alive her legacy, her spirit and her passion for social justice.”

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Texas A&M’s medical school ac-cepted more applicants for the class entering next year than it has room for, said an A&M administrator.

Thomas Shomaker, dean of A&M’s College of Medicine, said 250 students accepted offers to the school, which is accredited for a class size of 170 students.

He said the school will accept volunteers from the class to defer until next year and will offer the volunteers a scholarship worth just more than $6,500 — about 60 percent of tuition costs for one year. So far, 10 students have deferred or accepted offers else-where. In addition to deferment,

the school will offer preferred or guaranteed admissions into oth-er medical research or cross-dis-cipline programs it offers.

Shomaker said the school will assign mandatory deferments to bring the class down to 170 on April 1. He said they will assign the deferments on that deadline to re-solve the issue before it interrupts students’ financial and housing plans for next year.

Because of the guessing game medical schools have to play when deciding how many accep-tance offers to extend, A&M is not alone in dealing with over-admissions, Shomaker said.

“You’re always in a position of trying to predict how many stu-dents are going to accept your offer

of admission and sometimes you get it right, and sometimes you’re off,” Shomaker said.

He said A&M has historically had to accept just under three stu-dents for every one who decides to attend the school. This year, he said, every two offers yielded an accep-tance. He said the school built new campus facilities in Round Rock and College Station for this year, which may have contributed to the increased interest in the school.

In Texas, the eight public medical schools all participate in an appli-cation program called Texas Medi-cal and Dental Schools Application Service. The program matches ap-plicants with medical schools based on their qualifications and the schools make their final selections

by Feb. 1. Schools can make pre-match offers to applicants through December of the previous year.

David Jones, associate dean of admissions at the UT Health Sci-ence Center in San Antonio, said medical schools’ dependence on historical data means they have to be conservative when guessing how many offers to make before the match date.

Last academic year, the UT Medical Branch at Galveston had a similar admission problem to the one A&M faces now. UTMB spokeswoman Molly Dannen-maier said the school adjusted the number of offers it made because it expected fewer responses be-cause of the damage done to the area by Hurricane Ike.

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More than 100 union and community supporters marched to the Capitol from the Texas chapter of the AFL-CIO head-quarters on Lavaca and 11th streets to send a message of sol-idarity to public employees in Wisconsin.

They held flashlights and posters while chanting in sup-port of Wisconsin public work-ers. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed public employees pay more for benefits to balance the state’s $137 million shortfall. The bill would also eliminate collec-tive bargaining rights for many state workers.

An attack on one union per-son is an attack on all union p eople , s a id Texas AFL-CIO President Becky Moeller.

“We’re con-cerned with what is happen-ing in Wiscon-sin,” Moeller said. “What they’re trying to do is attack labor unions across the country.”

Public employees in Texas do not have the right to collective bargaining, the right to nego-tiate salaries and working con-ditions. But if they can do it in one state they could do it in oth-er states, Moeller said.

“Labor unions have helped build a middle class in this country,” she said. “For Gov. Walker to just de-cide to attack labor unions in Wis-consin, we think it’s the tip of the iceberg.”

Tara Cohen, a Madison native,

said the proposed union cuts hit home. Her friends and family who are teachers and hospital workers would be affected. She said their whole lives can potentially change.

“It will give power to people from Austin and people from Mad-ison are paying attention to what’s going on elsewhere with our sup-port or not,” Cohen said.

Polls show 65 percent of people, excluding government officials and their families, think the governor has gone too far, law professor Ju-lius Getman said. It is a combina-tion labor union and community issue, he said.

“I think the governor of Wiscon-sin has awakened the sleeping gi-

ant and it’s going to be interesting how it plays out because the la-bor movement has been much too dormant in recent years,” he said.

He said this will be a turn-ing point for la-bor unions. If the workers lose they would have gained some-

thing, and if they win it will be a tremendous victory not only for Wisconsin but for unions all over the country.

“Similar legislation was pending in other places and if they’re not going to get it in Wisconsin they’re going to back off,” Getman said.

Getman said that ever y-one is surprised by the concern and magnitude of the protests around the nation.

“By being militant, the Demo-crats and the union people have shown there is still power in union,” he said.

Although the sun was out on Monday, members of The Stu-dents Speak chanted “It’s rain-ing, it’s pouring, the Legislature is snoring,” under umbrellas.

About 20 group members handed out fliers in front of the Tower to in-form students about the $9.4 billion Rainy Day Fund, and to suggest the Legislature could use it to offset cuts to higher education.

The Rainy Day Fund is a pot of excess revenue, mostly from natu-ral gas and oil taxes, set aside for use during times of a budget shortfall.

Women’s and gender studies se-nior Teri Adams said the group wanted to raise student awareness of the fund, especially with the bud-get cuts UT is facing. The Legisla-tive Budget Board, a committee that suggests potential cuts to state agen-cies, recommended cutting about $93 million from UT’s budget for the 2012-13 biennium.

“The Rainy Day Fund is going to have everyone wanting a piece of it, and it’s not enough to cover the budget shortfall,” Adams said. “We want people to be aware that it’s like a political football, and there are ways to spend it that will make it go as far as possible for

the people of Texas and we want people to have their eye on it.”

Adams said in the past Gov. Rick Perry has used the fund to give busi-nesses tax breaks and build infra-structure for businesses.

“We want this fund to be used for

the people of Texas and not for the corporate interests,” Adams said

Texas leaders have seen these budget issues coming for a while, said Perry spokeswoman Lucy Nashed, which is why they chose to not tap into the Rainy Day

Fund last session.“Emptying the savings account to

pay for recurring expenses not only postpones tough-but-necessary de-cisions, but would also leave us ill-equipped to handle bigger emergen-cies in the future,” Nashed said.

A student coalition met with four Texas senators and two Texas House representatives on Monday to raise the Longhorn voice at the Capitol.

Students from groups such as Student Government, the Sen-ate of College Councils and the Graduate Student Assembly formed the Invest in Texas coali-tion, a group that will lobby for higher education issues such as opposing budget cuts to higher education, supporting competi-tive insurance benefits and gun control on campus.

Chelsea Adler, Senate of College

Councils president, said she and students Jimmy Talarico and Dan-iel Spikes met with senators and representatives on Monday to talk about the coalition’s platform and gauge their responsiveness.

“The meetings today have gone really well. Everyone has been re-ally receptive to our ideas,” said Alder, a government and social work senior.

The group’s main priority is to keep budget cuts to higher edu-cation proportionate to the total amount spent on higher educa-tion, she said. Gov. Rick Perry’s $182.3 billion two-year budget plan, which will last from Sept. 1, 2009 until Aug. 31, 2011, al-lots 12 percent of all spending to higher education, but in the last fiscal year higher education made up almost 42 percent of all budget cuts with a $75.5 billion deficit, she said. This session, the Legislative Budget Board, an agency that recommends poten-tial cuts to state agencies, sug-gested a $93.2 million cut to UT,

said University Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty.

The group will also lobby for competitive insurance benefits and work with other universi-ties to gain the ability for public schools to choose their own in-dividual safety policies, includ-ing the ability to choose to out-law guns on campus, she said.

“This is such a pivotal time for our University, and we need as many students as we can to get in-volved with lobbying for these is-sues,” Adler said. “There’s lots of ways to get involved and make an impact, and the easiest one is lobbying.”

The coalition’s first lobbying day will be in March at the Capitol, she said.

Eventually, the group wants to work with other Texas schools and the rest of the UT System to gain the same benefits for all schools in the state, said Talarico, SG executive di-rector and government senior.

“Students have seen the effects of budget cuts on our campus al-

ready with things like increased class sizes, entire programs cut, reduced facility hours and fees at the doctor’s office,” he said. “If we want to prevent that from happening again, students must become involved in the legisla-tive process. These lawmakers are deciding the future of our campus.”

One of the group’s plans is to have members of its organi-zations send postcards to their hometown’s representatives ex-plaining the Invest in Texas plat-form, Talarico said. Getting home districts on the side of the students is a good to reach out to the Capitol, said Rep. Elliott Na-ishtat, D-Austin, who met with Adler, Talarico and Spikes.

“The Capitol has to hear your voice from all over the state be-fore you really have an impact on these issues,” said Spikes, the leg-islative director of the Graduate Student Assembly and an edu-cational administration graduate student.

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“ “Labor unions have helped build a middle class in this country .

— Becky Moeller, Texas AFL-CIO President

Wisconsin conflict inspires Austinites to march in support

UT coalition lobbies for higher education at Capitol

Jono Foley | Daily Texan Staff

Latin American Studies senior Natasha Mevs-Korff rallies against budget cuts on the Main Mall on Monday. Holding umbrellas, the protesters urge Texas government to use the Rainy Day Fund, a savings fund that sets aside excess revenue for use in times of unexpected shortfall.

After being embarrassed by Oklahoma last Saturday, Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors held a prac-tice she referred to as an NBA prac-tice — as in no babies allowed.

On Monday night against Iowa State (19-8; 7-6), Goestenkors got the mature physicality she was look-ing for but not the result, as Tex-as (17-10; 6-7) dropped its second game in a row in overtime, 66-57.

The Longhorns stormed out with a fiery aggression as Goestenkors’ game plan of a dribble-drive offense came into play immediately. Fresh-man Chassidy Fussell scored Texas’ first points with a hard drive against four Cyclone players, knocking one to the ground.

The tactic worked for much of the first half as it freed up shooters and allowed for easy lay-ups but was derailed in the second half when Iowa State’s man-to-man defense tuned up, forcing Texas to settle for contested jumpers.

As has been the case in recent years between these two teams, the game was a back-and-forth battle the whole way through. With Texas down by two with less than a min-ute remaining, the dribble-drive worked again.

With 13 seconds remaining in regulation, junior Ashleigh Fonte-nette slashed to the basket, caus-ing the Iowa State defense to col-lapse onto her. She dished the ball to freshman post Anne Ma-rie Hartung who tied the game at 54-54.

Overtime was much crueler to Texas. With Hartung and junior Ashley Gayle both fouled out and playing her worst game of the season, the Longhorns simply lost steam. They were outscored 12-3 in the extra period.

With Goestenkors preaching physicality, Yvonne Anderson cer-tainly stepped up her game on Mon-

Although they display typi-cal sibling rivalry behavior, Dax and Kerrington Hill are not your average brothers.

Dax, a sophomore, and Ker-rington, a freshman, are Longhorn swimmers who are regular team-mates when competing. But things are different when they’re away from team activities.

“Having Kerrington at UT with me is interesting,” Dax said. “The swimming part is all right. Outside of that, we still bump heads over some stuff.”

Despite being team mates, Dax still considers Kerrington to be the typical annoying little brother.

“Sometimes he has his moments when he’s cool,” Dax said. “Oth-er times I just want to, you know, choke him.”

Dax recalled one of their most memorable fights when he was giv-en permission from his parents to teach Kerrington a lesson.

“For the longest time I wasn’t al-lowed to fight my brother,” Dax said. “My parents gave me the green light one time and we got into it. I’m pret-

ty sure the fight was over a chair. I was sitting in a chair and he got mad at me because he wanted to sit in it. It got intense.”

Despite their differences, the Hill brothers have respect for each other.

“He is pretty clutch,” Dax said. “That’s pretty cool. At our state re-lay in 2009, my senior year of high school, I was the leg before him and I knew that if I got close he would be able to finish it. I knew he’d be able to knock the guy out.”

The brothers, both freestyle specialists, got their start playing

sports like soccer and basketball and made the transition to swim-ming when they were seven and eight years old.

“I would always jump into the pool before I could swim and my mom would have to jump in and save me. So she put me in swim lessons. I did that for about a year, and then she put me in summer league and I just stuck with it,” Kerrington said.

Kerrington was not too thrilled

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The Longhorns had to go to class on Sunday. Taught by head coach Rick Barnes, Texas sat through an extended version of its film study so they could learn what exactly went wrong Saturday against Nebraska.

The team watched an entire replay of the 70-67 loss in Lincoln less than 24 hours after it happened.

Dribble penetration defense, screening and rebounding were a few of the many topics discussed.

“It was an eye opener,” said fresh-man Tristan Thompson. “We still have a lot of room to grow.”

Texas looks to take what they learned from the film session on Sun-day to build a new win streak tonight when they take on the last-place Iowa State Cyclones.

Prior to watching the video of Sat-urday’s loss, Barnes’ message to his

team was simple.“I told them, ‘You got to look at

this tape and you got to be honest with yourself and be able to evaluate yourself and see the areas where you got to get better,’” Barnes said. “Ev-ery time they go back and look at the game, they are always surprised be-cause they always think they are play-ing hard.”The season-opening series

against unranked Maryland was a case study in consistency.

When the No. 6 Longhorns are at their best, sharp in the field and smart at the plate, they’re tough to beat — as illustrated by their 16-0 win over the Terrapins on Sunday. But when they get away from the little things, they struggle; evident in their 10-1 loss to the same team a day prior.

The Longhorns (3-1) outscored Maryland 32-14 over the weekend, but the results of each game were inconsistent, suggesting that Texas didn’t always play the game it’s ca-pable of.

The Longhorns enjoyed blow-outs in the first and fourth games, got stomped in the second game and had to scratch and claw their way to a 7-4 win in the third game,

thanks to a furious rally put togeth-er in the bottom of the eighth in-ning when Texas scored five runs.

“I hope that we can realize the energy, competitiveness, fight and focus it takes to play each in-ning that way,” said head coach Augie Garrido. “Our goal is to do it inning-by-inning and not have to wait until we’re in such a difficult position.”

Freshmen Erich Weiss, Mark Payton and Jacob Felts have a col-lective .572 batting average and are models of the consistency for the rest of the team.

“The best players on the field right now are the younger guys,” Garrido said. “They go out, keep it simple and play ball. That’s what they did and that’s why they’re successful.”

Some of the older players failed to get into form over the weekend, with junior second baseman Jor-dan Etier going hitless in 10 at-bats

and shortstop Brandon Loy man-aging to hit .188.

“We’ve got a lot of guys think-ing about a lot of things. The whole idea is to stay focused on being a ballplayer because that’s all you can control,” Garrido said. “We failed at that. If we’re going to be a winner, we have to elevate our attitude.”

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The Longhorns huddle during a timeout in a win against Texas Tech. Texas looks to rebound from Saturday’s loss to Nebraska tonight.

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Kansas State beat Oklahoma 77-62 on Saturday to move to .500 in Big 12 play. The win came af-ter knocking in-state rival Kan-sas from its perch atop the col-lege basketball rankings on Feb. 14. The Wildcats have final-ly started playing like the team many expected to see before the season started, thanks to the im-proved play of senior point guard Jacob Pullen.

Pullen started the week off scoring a season-high 38 points against Kansas. He followed with a 27-point effort against the Soon-ers to put the Wildcats back in the hunt for a first round bye in the Big 12 tournament. Pullen was the aggressor in both games, go-ing to the free throw line 27 times, and found his stroke from dis-tance, going eight-for-12 from beyond the arch.

Kansas State will need Pullen to keep stepping up in big games as the toughest part of its schedule begins Wednesday when the team travels to Nebraska. The road doesn’t get any easier after that: No. 21 Mis-souri will visit the Wildcats in Man-hattan on Saturday before the Wild-cats’ pivotal matchup against No. 5 Texas on Monday in Austin.

Dunn closing in on milestoneBaylor senior shooting guard

LaceDarius Dunn needs 40 points to become the Big 12’s all-time lead-ing scorer. Dunn is the first player in Bears history to surpass 2,200 points (2,217) and has his sights set on for-mer Red Raider Andre Emmett’s scoring mark. Emmett became the conference’s top scorer in 2004 af-ter four years in Lubbock. Play-ing four years in the league certain-ly has its benefits and, unlike Dunn, few great scorers stay on campus for all four seasons.

“If [former Longhorn Kevin] Du-rant had stayed four years, there’d be a chance he could be the all-time leading scorer,” said Kansas head coach Bill Self. “But I don’t think that should discount the career that LaceDarius has. Guys that stay de-serve to get rewarded.”

Dunn has caused numerous headaches for opposing coach-es, which Self attributed to Dunn’s unorthodox style and abili-ty to make mid-range jump shots and three-pointers.

“He may be the only guy I have coached against who can do that, he keeps you off balance and doesn’t need much space,” Self said. “At times he looks like he’s in slow motion but that’s part of his game plan.”

Dunn and the Bears face Mis-souri on the road Wednesday then return home Saturday for a match-up with Texas A&M, leaving the door open for the scoring record to be broken in front of the Bay-lor faithful.

Top teams take tumbleThe previously top-ranked Jay-

hawks were not the only top-10 team from the Big 12 to lose on the road last week after Nebraska up-set second-ranked Texas on Satur-day. The fact that the conference’s two best teams stumbled didn’t surprise KU’s coaching staff.

“I think the home court [ad-vantage] is worth ‘x’ amount of points, depending on who it is and the situation,” Self said. “The lat-er you play in your season, with the way the conference schedules are usually set up, the tougher the games become.”

The Cornhuskers moved to 16-1 at home with their win over Texas, and Self said the Longhorns’ 70-67 loss was not a bad one. Self didn’t say the same for his team’s defeat to rival Kansas State — a 16-point loss on national television.

The road losses didn’t cost either program much in the rankings, with both teams staying in the top five in both polls.

game against Texas A&M Cor-pus Christi. The Longhorns’ starting pitcher will be a game-time decision, but Garrido has said he will send a multitude of pitchers to the mound to-morrow against the Islanders (4-0), who are coming off a se-ries sweep of Mississippi Valley State. Last year, Texas came out on top with a combined score of 22-5 in two games.

The Longhorns would be wise to not overlook the Islanders and to focus on the little things against them and their starting pitcher Justin Meza. Garrido will be the first one to say that.

“We need to keep working on the things we did well Sunday,” he said. “It’s not about who your opponent is, you need to play the game the exact same way. As a team you can’t reach your full potential unless you respect the game and concentrate on all the details of the game, no matter who the opponent is.”

Rebounding stood out the most to Thompson when reviewing his performance.

“I played 18 minutes and had three rebounds,” he said. “That’s un-acceptable. For me being the player that I am, that’s unacceptable.”

Barnes showed his team how they did not execute their game plan throughout the game. The fail-ure to do so enabled Nebraska to do what they wanted.

“We didn’t play our usual defense,” said senior Gary Johnson. “We let them get comfortable at home. Any team that is that comfortable at home already has a foot up in the game and that’s what they did.”

Once again the Longhorns got off to a quick start against the Husk-ers, taking a seven-point lead into halftime. Throughout the 11-game streak, Texas had been struggling more in the second half, but a large enough first half lead had previously proven insurmountable for its oppo-

nents. Saturday was a different story.“You learn that if you don’t come

out of the gate strong in the second half like we haven’t been in the sec-ond half, we are going to face a loss, like we did,” Thompson said.

Barnes said he has been im-pressed with every practice this sea-son, but doesn’t always see that ef-fort continue into the games.

“I just don’t understand why we haven’t attacked the game the way we need to for 40 minutes,” Barnes said.

The loss was Texas’ first in con-ference play, ending an 11-game win streak that began Jan. 11.

“The positive is that sometimes you need to feel the sting of defeat,” Barnes said.

Postseason play is two weeks away and the Longhorns are making sure that if they lose again, it will happen before the NCAA tournament.

“It’s never good to lose, but at the same time it’s better to lose now than in March,” Thompson said.

By Austin LaymanceDaily Texan Staff

Wildcats start to live up to expectations

Orlin Wagner | Associated Press

Kansas State’s Jacob Pullen attempts a shot in Saturday’s win over Oklahoma. Pullen averaged 65 points in two games last week.

The Longhorns are comfortably seated at sixth on the leaderboard af-ter day two of the Puerto Rico Classic. This position among the field seems to fit right into Texas’ plan. The Long-horns have made a habit this season of slowly creeping up the leaderboards as an event nears its conclusion. The Longhorns have done it again, moving up five places since the first round. In every tournament they have compet-ed in, the Longhorns have improved their position after every round. Tex-as, which is one-over for the tourna-ment, trails leader Georgia Tech by 15 strokes. Heavy favorite and conference rival Oklahoma State sits at third, six strokes off the lead.

Round one on Sunday was not so

kind to Texas, with freshman Toni Hakula recording the only under-par round for the Longhorns at one-un-der. Texas got back on track Mon-day with senior Bobby Hudson, ju-nior Dylan Frittelli and sophomore Cody Gribble all shooting one-under for the day.

Hogan Award watch list addition Bobby Hudson rebounded from his forgettable first round, which saw him finish the day at eight-over and two spots from the bottom of the in-dividual leaderboard.

After his one-over first round, Gribble had three birdies over to fin-ish the day tied for 15th on the indi-vidual leaderboard.

Adam Wennerstrom and Haku-la are both two-over for the tourna-ment and tied for 30th on the indi-vidual leaderboard.

By Nick CremonaDaily Texan Staff

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about being on the same team as Dax when they were younger, but it doesn’t bother him anymore.

“People tease me about having Dax here, but I just try to not think about it and swim my own race,” Kerrington said.

Although the brothers are very different, they are both extreme-ly competitive and grateful for their parents.

“Our parents really supported us and pushed us a lot, especially early on,” Dax said. “As we got old-er, we were able to push ourselves independently. So they just got to sit back and kick it.”

The two were competitive back then and still are, but it isn’t lim-ited to the pool. Dax and Ker-rington are known to go at it on video games, but everything usu-ally ends peacefully — as long as one of them doesn’t sit in the oth-er’s chair.

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day. The junior guard scored 14 points and snagged 10 re-bounds in the losing effort. Se-nior Kathleen Nash added 15 points and Fontenette, who was playing with a broken shooting thumb, managed 12 points and three steals.

Though she scored the first points of the game, normally sure-handed Fussell went 1-11 from the field for two points.

Gayle’s foul trouble had her riding the pine for most of the game. This opened up in-side scoring for the Cyclones, and forward Chelsea Poppens took advantage. Poppens had a career-high 23 points and 11 rebounds.

This was the second game in a row in which Gayle fouled out. Texas committed 22 team fouls to Iowa State’s 12.

The loss will send Texas’ NCAA tournament bid further into speculation as it appears to be flirting with the edge of the bubble. With only three games remaining, Texas will likely need to win at least two to stay in consideration for a seed.

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10 Tuesday, February 22, 2011LIFE&ARTS

Marnie Stern hits up the MohawkIn November 2008, the beautiful Marnie Stern

and her band received a hefty speeding ticket while on tour and couldn’t afford to pay it. Their solution was to set up a kissing booth at a San Francisco show, charging $3 for cheek kisses, $10 for lip kisses and a whopping $100 for a French kiss. Apparently the mood at the kissing booth was one of nervous tension among the men too timid to make a move, although there were a few takers.

Fortunately, Stern and her retinue have dug themselves out of that hole by now and will play at

the Mohawk tomorrow evening at 9 p.m. with ex-perimental math-rockers Tera Melos and Austin’s own Zorch. But be on the lookout for a kissing booth, just in case. Tickets are $8 at mohawkaus-tin.com or $10 at the door.

The death of lo-fi“The ravages of age — and the Internet — [has]

pushed lo-fi into the 99-cent ‘Buy It Now’ eBay bin,” said Jared Phillips, guitarist for the lo-fi indie rock band Times New Viking in a recent article in Vice magazine. “Now lo-fi’s the new slap bracelet. Max headroom. Moon shoes. JNCO jeans.”

It’s surprising to hear Jared Phillips mourn the death of the genre, considering his band and many others in the past decade have pushed to make its presence known. Times New Viking along with

bands such as Psychedelic Horseshit and Wavves are part of a subgenre of lo-fi known as “shitgaze;” the genre’s proponents play traditional indie rock songs but in an abrasive way, maxing out ampli-fiers’ capabilities and distorting the sound to the point where it sounds like psychedelic noise. Shit-gaze became popular in the past decade because of its affordability and ease; using sub-par equip-ment and shoddy recording techniques is appeal-ing to bands on a budget.

But Phillips’ claim doesn’t bode well for many of the lo-fi bands in Austin. His solution? Get out while you can or record music correctly. He rec-ommends recording properly, buying the best gear money can buy and practicing proper main-tenance. Or if all else fails, “Watch the Grammys and learn, dumb-ass.” Read the full article from Vice at http://j.mp/dt-deathoflofi.

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Marnie Stern, a songwriter and tap-style guitar-ist, will play at the Mohawk tomor-row night. Stern gained notoriety in 2008 after set-ting up a kissing booth at a show to help pay for a speeding ticket.

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nancially irresponsible brother) and Reg E. Cathey (as a sleazy fight manager) are both fantastic. Cathey clearly enjoys his character’s inher-ent smarminess.

“Justified,” on the other hand, has just entered its second season. Timothy Olyphant stars as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a cow-boy hat-toting, effortlessly badass character who couldn’t be a better match for Olyphant’s sharp wit and charisma. “Justified” gives us Oly-phant’s most memorable character yet by essentially taking his con-stantly angry sheriff from HBO’s “Deadwood,” infusing him with a sense of humor and updating him to modern-day Kentucky.

In its first season, “Justified” suf-fered from focusing a bit too much on stand-alone stories after a fantas-tic pilot, turning into a typical cop procedural. Halfway through the

season, the show quickly became more serial and much more com-pelling as a result. Season two is more streamlined, quickly introduc-ing its seasonal arc while also work-ing in a case of the week for Givens and his fellow marshals to deal with. The season’s serialized story line deals with a family of pot dealers led by actress Margo Martindale.

Martindale’s Mags Bennett is a new addition to an already strong cast. Ruthless drug kingpin is not the first thing that comes to mind when one looks at Martindale, but she effortlessly sells her character’s particular mix of deep-fried South-ern maternity and ruthless business savvy. Also memorable are Walton Goggins’ reformed criminal and fellow newbie Jeremy Davies.

With “Lights Out” and the new season of “Justified,” FX contin-ues a stellar television season. “Lights Out,” which airs on Tues-days, is halfway through its first season while “Justified” is only two episodes in, but both shows are quickly becoming some of the best on television.

vision, Laren deemed the paradigm for everything “arte light.”

Laughing quietly to himself on a sunny afternoon in his pink-tinted sunglasses, baseball cap and bright yellow Hawaiian shirt, he seemed weightless and indifferent to trouble.

Laren’s piece, “Searching for Pric-es,” is part of the Blanton’s permanent exhibit and is on display with its con-temporaries for the first time. Laren was never able to show the piece at the Rojas Gallery because of trans-portation issues and weather condi-tions. Early in his strange quest for artistic fame, Laren made the piece with the intention of selling it to a lo-cal grocery store called El Tigre.

Using his own technique, Laren painted the work on glass with acryl-ic paint and laid a collage of holo-graphic paper behind it. The paint-ing depicts a giant tiger towering above buildings from Laren’s home-town of San Nicolás. Giant commer-

cial products such as lipstick, bran-dy and cleaning supplies are strewn about the tiger’s feet.

“We were immensely happy to discover that Benito’s work was the most ridiculous, the most happy, the most savage of all of us,” said artist Marcelo Pombo, remember-ing Laren’s entrance into the arte light community.

One of Pombo’s eight works in the exhibit, “Garland with Rotted Fruit,” presents a festive, yet unsettling scene of decay. In the foreground, thousands of pink, red and white drops of enamel paint form garlands that hang across the canvas and con-trast the blue-green world of cellu-loid forms behind, while rotten fruits made from coffee filters and filled with pebbles hang off the canvas.

Like other artists in the exhib-it, Pombo ignored Argentina’s trou-bled political past and sought beauty in his immediate environment using the limited means available to him. An untitled piece of his uses juice box labels in a collage on wood, while an-other, called “Casper,” is an arrange-ment of scrunchies, Q-tips and Sty-

rofoam on a “Casper the Friendly Ghost” blanket.

To the left of the two pieces, a quote of Pombo’s reads, “The only risk worth taking is for beauty sake.”

Out of context, it seems silly; what could Pombo have risked arranging scrunchies on a child’s blanket? How-ever, following the tragedy of Argen-tina’s “Dirty War” in which thou-sands of suspected left-wing sym-pathizers were kidnapped or killed, conceptual and political art dominat-ed the Argentine art scene. It was the very lightheartedness of Pombo and others’ art that made it controversial and innovative.

“We tend to associate beauty with classical forms or with taste, but we rarely think of beauty as an attitude or spirit,” said Ursula Davila-Villa, curator of Latin American art at the Blanton Museum.

The most striking piece of the ex-hibit, a construction by Gordín, is an intricate model of the Pontoise Street pool, where he often swam when living in France, and enclosed it in a wooden box with a eyepiece on the side. The view from the eye-

piece looks out from the top of a diving board over a placid blue pool at night.

Gordín and Laren emphasized the distinctiveness of each artist’s work rather than the similarities that brought them together some 20 years ago. Still, they said there was some-thing special about having their art shown together once again.

“I don’t like to talk about histo-ry in capital letters, as a big thing,” Gordín said. “[Our work] was a very small part of Argentine history. I feel that’s a period that has closed. We are moving in different directions now, and I love to see how we start-ed all together.”

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Four years after the release of the critically acclaimed In Rainbows, Ra-diohead abruptly released The King of Limbs on Friday after announcing the album’s release only days before.

The King Of Limbs sounds and feels like the efforts of an experienced group. Despite the unique, experi-mental nature of the album, it comes off as an incredible, succinct piece of art that still manages to catch people’s attention. The album walks the line between being extremely eccentric and easy to listen to.

The album is composed around Thom Yorke’s slurred murmurs and yells, surrounded by wispy guitar, pi-ano melodies and soft drum tapping. The byproduct is an intriguing album that captures and keeps the listener’s attention.

While the album retains some post rock elements and is perhaps less co-herent than its predecessors, there’s more mumbling and distortion than the catchy and conventional beat structure of “Body Snatchers” and other tracks off of In Rainbows.

It still exists within the sphere of Radiohead, however melodic min-imalism makes the album, as it did past records. Regardless, The King of Limbs manages to be incomparable all on its own both from Radiohead and anything else being produced right now.

There’s something else much more striking about the album. Something about The King of Limbs is just so pure. It lets you peer into the hearts and minds of Yorke and company.

“There’s an empty space inside my

heart and it won’t take root,” sung in “Lotus Flower.” This and other songs are laced with sorrowful meaning by Yorke and coupled with intelligent but heartfelt instrumentals that draw you into the personal, emotional sphere.

Although what they express isn’t al-ways evident, it is clear that they put themselves deep into their work.

“Slowly we unfurl as lotus flow-ers and all I want is the moon upon a stick dancing around the pit,” sung in “Lotus Flower” has no narrative, but features a composite of different sce-narios put together in poetic format.

Perhaps the only disenchanting portion of Radiohead’s latest effort is its lack of new direction relative to their catalog. While past Radiohead albums such as OK Computer and Kid A were steps in genre-defying di-rections, The King of Limbs is more indicative of a typical Radiohead con-tent with glitchy, off-beat electronica rock. Maybe Radiohead is maturing or they have settled into a style that works. Regardless, it would be nice to hear an entirely new, revitalized Ra-diohead record in the future. Even if what they’re doing works, virtually ev-ery Radiohead album has “worked” in the same sense.

Back from the days of Pablo Honey to The Bends and so on and so forth, Radiohead has proven themselves in-capable of creating music that falls into the less-than-exemplary category. The King Of Limbs exists as a contin-uation of this.

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Adele represents something tru-ly unique within the realm of fe-male singer-songwriters. Her vo-cal ability is unparalleled and the staying power of the music she cre-ates is unmatched. For every album of hers that rests in its place within contemporary music history, many more Katy Perry and Lily Allen al-bums will fall by the wayside and into the depths with their dispos-able companions.

Adele’s latest album, 21, opens with the single “Rolling In The Deep,” a powerful song about lost love and heartbreak that serves as both a fitting introduction to Adele’s vocal talents for new listeners and a brilliant reminder for old fans.

21 continues with inspiring and deep piano and guitar accompani-ments with heavy, piercing back-beats, all complementing Adele’s in-credible voice. Another gem on the record comes later with the acoustic guitar-lit cover of The Cure’s “Love Song.” The song is a shift from the slightly catchier, more rhythmical-ly charged songs that precede it on the album. The more mellow effort adds a level of depth and diversity to 21 that contrasts nicely with the energetic recordings earlier on the album such as “Rumor Has It,” giv-ing 21 a sense of completeness.

Stylistically, Adele doesn’t take many risks nor does she move away from the general paradigm she ad-hered to in her previous album 19 — creating deep, soulful blues songs. While something new is al-

ways appreciated, Adele is wise to stick to what she knows and what she’s good at. It is within this me-dium that her art excels and she is able to do something many aspire to but fail at: Create a legitimate pop record centered around love and heartbreak. Adele connects to the listener, making them feel her pain as she reflects on loves lost,

wailing lyrics such as, ”We could have had it all,” and “Tears are gon-na fall,” rolling in between intro-spective thoughts of a relationship destroyed. Adele invites the listener to gaze at her vulnerabilities, in turn revealing their own. In this sense, 21 fosters a connection between the artist and her audience — the mark of a great album.

21AdeleGenre: soul, BluesFor those who like: Jessie J, Amy Winehouse, Ellie Goulding

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MoVIE REVIEW Cedar rapids

In the 2009 box office giant “The Hangover,” Ed Helms (along with every other principal cast mem-ber) suddenly became a household name, and, like his “Hangover” co-stars, his next few projects have es-sentially been twists on the persona established in that movie. However, “Cedar Rapids” is smart in its use of Helms, taking what made him fun-ny in “The Hangover” while making sure to invent a new character to go along with it.

Helms plays Tim Lippe, an insur-ance salesman who has never left his Wisconsin hometown until his firm’s star agent dies in a hilariously raun-chy fashion, leaving Tim as the only candidate to attend a major insur-ance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He’s shouldered with the re-sponsibility of continuing the firm’s tradition of winning the convention’s prestigious Two Diamonds award. Tim seems to be doing fine, until

he befriends Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly), a recently divorced party an-imal who wastes no time in getting Tim into all kinds of alcohol-fueled trouble.

“Cedar Rapids” seems slight-ly dead in the water for most of its opening sequences, as it sets up the plot and introduces its cast, which includes Isiah Whitlock Jr.’s laid-back Ronald and Anne Heche’s Joan. In these opening scenes, Helms’ per-vasive awkwardness is played as too over-the-top to be truly funny. Once his character begins to loosen up and have some fun, the film does the same. Many of its best moments fea-ture the four main characters bond-ing or engaging in drunken antics, such as a late-night dip in the ho-tel’s pool that gives Reilly his funni-est scene.

As far as the cast goes, there’s not a weak link. Helms’ boundless enthu-siasm never gets old, but the film’s fi-nal act lets him show off some im-pressive dramatic chops as well. Reil-ly plays his typical boisterous man-

child here but continues to make his characters hilariously watchable..

Rounding out the supporting cast is Whitlock, who brings a low-key wit-tiness to his scenes and makes a few hilarious references that should have fans of his character in “The Wire” rolling with laughter. Anne Heche is uncharacteristically likable as Tim’s love interest, playing a character that feels like a grown-up version of the hipster dream girl that’s populated many a coming-of-age story.

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more interesting. The story is pleas-antly unpredictable, with things get-ting a bit darker than one would ex-pect, but the film stays warm and en-dearing at its center.

“Cedar Rapids” isn’t the kind of movie that’s remembered during awards season. In fact, it will prob-ably be forgotten by summer. None-theless, it’s a sweet, funny film with a few great performances, characters and a pleasant, under-the-radar sur-prise that’s absolutely worth check-ing out.

Cedar Rapids

Grade: B+

Miguel ArtetaGenre: ComedyRuntime: 86 minutesFor those who like: “step Brothers”, “the Hang-over”

Best DirectorDarren Aronofsky, “Black Swan”David O. Russell, “The Fighter”Tom Hooper, “The King’s Speech”David Fincher, “The Social Network”Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, “True Grit”

Even as “The King’s Speech” began picking up steam with awards, the director category seemed safe for Da-vid Fincher. The awarding by the Director’s Guild of Tom Hooper, however, made this a two-man race. The surge of love for “The King’s Speech” suggests that vot-ers will do anything they can to reward the film, even if the directing in the film, while technically capable, is ba-nal and indistinctive. But voters will still likely see “The Social Network” as a movie defined by Fincher’s touch from the opening scene to the credits and reward him accordingly, even if it’s one of few times the Director and Picture category have split.

Best Animated Feature“How to Train Your Dragon”“The Illusionist”“Toy Story 3”

Pixar movie. Enough said.

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For the past decade, cable networks such as HBO, FX , AMC and Showtime have been embroiled in a competitive struggle to pro-duce the best programming. HBO continues to produce strong dramas, and AMC’s “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” are among the best shows on TV. However, FX remains on top in terms of consistent quality, especially with

its new boxing drama “Lights Out” and its Southern crime show “Justified,” which has just entered its second season.

“Lights Out” is essentially a boxing film in the vein of “Rocky,” but extended to 13 hours. While this might seem like a bad idea, the story of Patrick ‘Lights’ Leary (Holt Mc-Callany), a boxer forced into retirement be-cause of an ultimatum from his worried wife and pushed back into the ring because of the recent economic downturn, is already a strangely gripping slow burn of a program with a spectacular cast.

Usually cast as a stock intimidating thug,

McCallany is revelatory as Lights, instill-ing his character with a weary soulfulness and easy charm even while his character re-alizes just how much he misses hitting peo-ple. McCallany’s versatility is on display in the first episode’s climatic scene, which inter-cuts scenes of Lights bonding with his daugh-ter with moments where he breaks a dentist’s arm for a loan shark and beats a man sense-less outside of a bar.

The rest of the cast is equally strong. “The Wire” alums Pablo Schreiber (as Lights’ fi-

FX shows shine, knock out other networks’ lineups

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OUTLOOK

When you go to “Recovering Beauty: The 1990s in Buenos Ai-res” at The Blanton Museum of Art this month, don’t expect a typi-cal museum-going experience. The world inside is joyful at times, un-settling at others, but always in-triguing and intimate.

From Benito Laren’s large paint-ing on glass, “Searching for Prices,” to Sebastián Gordín’s elaborately detailed constructions and diora-mas, the exhibit presents a compre-hensive collection of work created by the “arte light” group during the 1990s in Argentina.

The “arte light” aesthetic ignored the political influences that per-vaded Argentine art following the

oppressive military dictatorship of the 1980s and instead looked for beauty in both the simple and fan-tastical, using popular culture as inspiration.

“That art, as life, leads nowhere is what makes our freedom mean-ingful and salvation possible,” said Jorge Gumier Maier, the director of the Rojas Gallery, where the group showed in the ’90s.

But Laren, who has six pieces in the show, claims he never had any sort of artistic mission, unlike Maier.

“I wanted to be famous and a millionaire, the second more than the first,” Laren said.

Despite or perhaps because of his indifference to Maier’s aesthetic

By Clayton WickhamDaily Texan Staff

Blanton exhibits ‘light’ political art

Timothy Olyphant’s

Raylan Givens and Margo

Martindale’s Mags Bennet have a polite discussion in

Season 2 of FX’s “Justified.”

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“Search-ing for Prices”

by Benito Laren

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